Dryopteris clintoniana × goldiana (Wood fern)

5/22/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 5 × 7½′ (1.6 × 2.3 m)

5/22/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 17 × 12″ (44 × 29 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Pteridophyta	Ferns
Class	Filicopsida	“Leptosporangiate” (has to do with how their spores form) ferns—includes most ferns
Order	Polypodiales	Polypod ferns
Family	Dryopteridaceae	Wood ferns (about 70% of the ferns)
Genus	Dryopteris	From Greek dryas, “oak,” and pteris, “fern,” in reference to the presence of some species of wood ferns in woodland areas populated with oaks
Species	clintoniana	Honors George William Clinton (1807-1885), founder and developer of the Clinton Herbarium in Buffalo, New York
×	goldiana	For John Goldie (1793–1886), Scottish-born botanist and author

Dryopteris clintoniana × goldiana description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.